End of ADS-L Digest - 7 Feb 1996 to 8 Feb 1996
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There are 2 messages totalling 39 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Monkey Wards and lots more
2. Dollar stores
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 22:09:40 -0700
From: Rudy Troike
Subject: Monkey Wards and lots more
The following contribution comes from my colleague Dick Demers:
Monkey Wards was the name my Dad used, and I can remember back to the
early fifties for that one. He also had humorous names for all sorts of
establishments in Portland, Oregon. Meier and Franks was Murphy and Finnegans.
The internal revenue was infernal revenue, of course. Hubert Humphery was
Preparation H. I've heard the following names for newscasters: Stoned
Phillips, Tom Lockjaw, Dan Blather..and so on. I have heard twisted names
for some Tucson places. Fed-Mart (when it existed) was Fed-Fart. Foley's
is Folly's. I'll bet there are some real funny ones out there. Dick D